Reading Time: < 1 min I recently shared more thoughts on have routines instead of goals (“Just do it“), but in some cases processes can beat routines. For exercise and learning, I think routines can be great, but if your life is more varied it can be hard to stick to a routine. In those cases, processes can take over […]
Productivity
11: When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do?
Reading Time: 2 min We’ve reached the 11th and final question “Tribe of Mentors” by Tim Ferriss (see all previous questions here), and it’s a good one! When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, or have lost your focus temporarily, what do you do? (If helpful: What questions do you ask yourself?) There are three great answers that I pulled […]
Strategic Luxury
Reading Time: < 1 min I had an interesting set of conversations on consecutive days last week and it taught me a new phrase. When chatting with Ali, she talked about how she consistently tries to find little ways to make her life better. It could be a better jug for her water (and all of the little ways her […]
Efficiency vs Effectiveness
Reading Time: < 1 min I’ve long thought that efficiency and effectiveness were roughly the same thing. There are some small differences, but they’re both about getting things done. After reading more about both, their differences are more pronounced than I realized. Peter Drucker separates them simply by this: “Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” […]
A Nimble contact list
Reading Time: 3 min I’ve briefly mentioned the tool “Dex” on here a few times, as it’s a great tool to help you remember to catch back up with old contacts. It does an excellent job, but it has one major problem — it doesn’t sync with my contacts. It can pull in my contacts, as well as email […]
A paper planner on a digital notepad
Reading Time: 2 min For the last few years, I’ve kept a rough schedule on my digital notepad (first the reMarkable, later the Kindle Scribe), and the tools keep getting better every year. Planning tools aren’t native on either device, so I’ve been purchasing templates from “ePaperTemplates” on Etsy. They make some great templates at a fair price and […]
How can I pay for that?
Reading Time: 2 min I’ve always been a believer in supporting the apps that I use the most. So many small, useful apps go out of business every year, so I try my best to support them and I encourage you to do the same. Snipd For example, the popular “Airr” app on iPhone was forced to shut down […]
Google Tasks is finally decent
Reading Time: 3 min Did you know that Google has a task management app? Not many do, because it’s been tucked away and largely ignored for years. It first came out in 2018 as a feature in Gmail, and has slowly expanded into a more full-featured app. It’s still rather bare-bones, but some recent improvements (as shared by The […]
Balance doesn’t mean 50/50
Reading Time: < 1 min Us humans are weird. When given two similar choices, we often assume that the odds of each choice is 50/50. That’s true in a lot of cases, like flipping a coin, but it also causes us to struggle to understand variances like in the Monty Hall problem. When it comes to work/life balance, you don’t […]
Save 50 steps a day
Reading Time: < 1 min Sometimes the little things can add up to make a big difference. For example, for most of us, taking more steps during the day is a good thing in terms of our health. For a business owner, though, reducing steps (and time) for their employees can be a better way to go. Henry Ford once […]